Mysuru city, identified by its earlier name Mysore that endured for more than a century, has witnessed a change not only in its name but also its profile, a change that is not exactly in line with the Winston Churchill quote, “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.” Many old…

God has been perceived by the land’s people for long as a divine force protecting the good-natured and punishing the other kind. Scholars spiritually-oriented also have a fascination during their discourses to impress upon their audiences that good will ultimately stump the evil. They further aver that one has to wait patiently for that to…

Governments, both at the Centre and in the States are in a state of overdrive passing Laws and scripting Acts with the laudable aim of reining in the undisciplined mass of 130-plus crore headcount in the country. The more the Laws and Acts, the more the indiscipline of people across the entire cross section of…

Countries across the world used to be classified into developed and underdeveloped until a few years ago, in the circles of the United Nations. In line with the practice of avoiding terminology likely to be perceived as discriminatory in the parlance of the world’s ombudsman-like body, the latter classification was modified into less developed and…

The Bard of Stratford Upon Avon, Shakespeare wrote the words in italics chosen for the caption of today’s column, while presenting the character Shylock, the uncompromising money-lender in Merchant of Venice. Demanding his pound of flesh from his truant borrower made Shylock the sinner in the verdict of some critics while some others felt he…

Kings of all hues as well as chieftains of comparatively smaller territories than kingdoms in times of both distant past and lot later, whose rule and tyranny respectively have been mentioned by chroniclers, either briefly or in eloquent details, have been Virtual leaders of society in their times, understandably by virtue of their authoritative perch…

Universities in the marked set of countries outside India, particularly the countries of Europe and Americas, are in a virtual competition to admit students based on their credentials, both academic and extra-curricular. Equally so, companies abroad are in a race for getting hold of talented human resources for obvious reasons in the hope that the…

The classic tag to music, literary works, attire and so on originating in different regions of the country represents the refined tastes of a bygone generation. Classical music used to be music to their ears, classics among the literary works used to be their immortal possessions showing the world its own shame (as Oscar Wilde…

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of companies in India mandates the corporate sector to give something back to the society on the ideology that companies take resources in the form of raw materials, human resources and so on from the societal sources. The Ministry of Corporate Affairs has notified the provisions of the Companies Act 2014…

Health buffs, whose presence in society nowadays is marked by only the talks they deliver before mostly their captive audiences on the steadily expanding health issues and also articles some among them take trouble to write for publication in the exclusive columns of their chosen popular dailies, including this one, as arbiters of wellness of…